Teaching for Democratic Engagement and Civic Learning

The “Every Student, Every Degree” report develops a multifaceted framework to define and specify civic learning. In addition, it makes the argument for civic learning throughout our undergraduate programs and shares specific institutional examples to help envision it in practice.

Your Major on the Ballot, and its companion the Science and Civics Guide, walk through 35+ disciplinary areas. For each, they touch on why students in the major care about democratic engagement and identify five specific policy intersections with the field.

"The Inquiry and Discourse Toolkit is intended to support faculty as they accompany students into the fray of learning in a complex and pluralistic world, one that demands deep inquiry and collaborative engagement."

This piece looks at five distinct goals for class sessions that engage with politics, policy, and social issues, linking them to specific classroom activities that support students in reaching each goal. It was written as part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series, a partnership between U-M's CRLT and Ginsberg Center for Community and Civic Engagement.

IDHE's Nancy Thomas and Mark Brimhall-Vargas provide workshop materials for a two-day program to support faculty and university staff as they facilitate political discussions in the classroom or on campus.

This website contains standalone handouts, worksheets, and blog pieces from the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series, a collaboration between U-M's Ginsberg Center for Community and Civic Engagement and CRLT to support instructors as they promote civic learning and democratic engagement in their courses.